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Fox Corp has named Fox Television Stations chief financial officer Joseph Dorrego as Chief Investor Relations Officer and EVP Corporate Initiatives. His replacement at the stations group will be Mike Nelson, who will take the title of EVP and CFO, reporting to station unit CEO Jack Abernethy.

The recipients of TVNewsCheck’s inaugural Women in Technology Futurist Awards — the TVB’s Abby Auerbach and LG and ATSC’s Madeleine Noland — epitomize the quality of taking a long-range view of where the television industry should be moving and figuring out how to get it there.

Walt Disney Co. and Nestle SA, is said to have pulled its advertising spending from YouTube, after a blogger detailed how comments on Google’s video site were being used to facilitate a “soft-core pedophilia ring.”

A forecast from Business Insider projects retail spending will hit $5.5 trillion in 2019. That’s an increase of 3.8%, or $200 billion compared with what it estimates was spent with retailers last year.

The Knight Foundation says it will invest $300 million in local journalism over the next five years. Among the beneficiaries are the American Journalism Project, which provides grants to local nonprofit news organizations.